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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones has four parts. The fourth part has 112 meditation techniques. The context of these techniques and descriptions of the techniques are pretty fascinating. They all aim to help us understand the 'void' or 'nothingness'.

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A New Yorker book review by John Lanchester of the book Happiness: A History (544 pages, 2006) by Darrin M. McMahon, is pretty awesome! By tracing the history of the word 'happiness' over the last two thousand years, the book is the historiography of Western happiness.

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What Kids Wish Their Teachers Knew (Aug 2016). A school teacher asked her students to complete this sentence: "I wish my teacher knew ... ". The responses were insightful.

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Imagine A Dog is a nice article written by Blake Ross (co-founder of Mozilla Firefox). A few days ago, he realized that he has "aphantasia" - he cannot "visualize" like most of us can. That realization got him really excited. He started calling his friends and fervidly discussed how they thought (through visualization) and how he thought (absolutely no visualization). The article summarizes these conversations :)